Coffee-pot



(No Model,)

W. W. NEWOOMB COPPE POT.

No. 362,105. Patented May 3, 1887.

UNITED STATES PATENT FFICE WILLIAM W. NE\VCOMB, OF BRADFORDSVILLE, KENTUCKY.

COFFE-POT.

SPBCIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 362,105, ciated May 3, 1887.

Applicaton fi1ed Novemhcr 30, 1886. Scrial 1\o. 220,286.

T aZZ wh0m it may eoncern:

Be itknown chat I, WILLIAM W. NE\VCOMB, a citizen of the United States, residing at Bradfordsvlle, in the county of Marion and State of Kentucky, hawe invented a new and useful Improvement in Cofi'ee-Pots, of which the fol- 1owing is u specification.

My im ention is an improven1ent in cofl'ee or tea pots; and it consists in novel means for attaching the straining cloth or saek to the receptacle for holding the eoffee or tea, as hereinafter fully deseribed, and more particularly pointed out in the claim.

In the drawings hereto annexed, and forming a part of this speeificaton, Figure 1 is & side elevation of my improved coffee or tea pot. Fig. 2 is a central verticaal setion of the same. Fig. 3 is a perspeetive view of the receptacle detached; and Fig. 4 is also a perspeetiveview of the receptaele, but taken from another point.

The same letters of reference have been applied to eorresponding parts in the several fig nres.

A represents a coffee er tea pot of any preferred or desired eonstruetion, the same having a spout a, handle b, and lid or cover c. Within the mouth of the potA the receptacle B is adapted to be fitted. 'Ihis receptacle is Haring from bottom to top, and at its upper edge is of the same diameter as the n1011t11 of the pot, whereby the cover may be removcd from the pot and fitted npon the 1nouth of the receptacie, or will fit upon the mouth of the pot when the receptacle is rcmoved.

The receptacle B is composed of tin, zinc, shcetiron or any snitzrble meta], and is provided around its botto m and top with beads (Z 6. \Vires C, preferably two in nmnber, as shown, extend across the bottom of the receptacie, and at their outer ends are provided with turnednp portions C, which letter are soldered or otherwise secured to the inside of the receptacle in sueh a manner that the bodies of the wires shell lie in a plane below that of the bottom of the receptaele. The wires cross each other at or 1iearthe center of the pot-end may or may not be fastened together at that point, as desired.

D is a metal ring provided with a bead, f, at its lower edge, the diameter of said ring being slightly largcr tha11 that of the bottom of the recepinclc,whereby it may be passcd upward over the outside of the latter, and will become wedged thereon at a short dstance from the lower end thereof.

E represents a. cloth of suitably coarse mesh to proper]y filter 01 strain the coffee in the Operation of making the same, and this cloth is seenred to the bottom of the receptaele in the following manner: The receptacle being removed and inverted, the cloth is placed over the WIGS 0 and fa1ls against the sides of the receptacle. The ring D is then passed over the turnedup portions C of the wires, upon the outside of the cloth,and forced downward u pon the receptacle until it is secnrely wedged thereon, whereby the c1oth is firmly held in p1ace. The receptacle with the c1oth thereon may then be inverted, filled with coffee to the desired amount, and placed within the pot, the cover fitting into the top thereof,and preventing the egress of fumes and coiiee in a condensed eondition.

It will be understood that in clamping the c1oth upon the reeeptaele the beaded edge of the ring D is plaeed nppermost, by which menns the c1oth is uinjured.

I am aware of the existence of Letters Patent N 0. 308,015, granted to John Tobin,November 11, 1884,2tnd No. 343,812, granted to R.L.Gore, J u11e 15,1886. The former of these patents shows 2 coffee-receptacle and a filter attschmerit for theszune. Thefiiter attaehment con sists of two wires crossed at right angles {Lld having their ends extended upward into the receptaele and fastened to a. carryingming. In operating this device a straining-cloth is plaeed across the upper end of the receptacleand the crossed wires are then pnshed downward into thereceptacle,forcing thestrainingclothbefore thern. The downward progress of the device is stopped and the straining-cloth held in the reeeptacle by the ring fastened to the upper ends of the wires, binding against it and the receptaele. 'Ihe middle portions of the crossed wires are formed approximately in 211 semicirele,the result of which is that the coffee-grounds and other sediment collect at the center of the bottom of the filter, and the weight thereof is unevenly distributed, causing the straining c1oth to sag,which destroys its efficiency. An ether defect of this device is that the wanner of securing andplacing the straining c10th within the receptacle soon wears away t-he centra1 portion of the strainng-cloth, thereby necessitating the provision of a new 0ne.

Patent N0. 343,812 shows a receptacle to the lower end of which a wire frame is secnred. This wre -fran1e consists of two wires bentinto the form of a semicirele,and having: ther ends bent up and secnred tothe insideofthe receptacle; These wires are placed s0 as to form a completecircle. Thestraining-cloth is plaeed 0x er the wires, and seeured by a ring slipped over the Same and the lower end of the receptacle. In this dexce sdes,or vertca1 portion, of the strainng-eloth arewithont supp0rt-except at two diametricallyopposite points, the consequence of which is that the cloth is apt t0 sag, thereby lessening its efieetiveness. These constructions are foreign to my inventi0n, and I make n0 claim thereto. By the nse of my device the straining-cloth is held against slipping, and the weight and strainthereon are eveniy distribnted. My constrnction aso is such that the strainngcloth een be qnicky app1ed without reqnrng any neety of justment, 01 without putting any nndue stra1n thereon.

Havng thus dscribed. my nventi0n, what I claim as new, and desire t-o secure by Letters Patent, is-

The herein described and shown improvement in coffee-pots, comprisng the pot, the coflee-receptacle, the crossed wires O,arrange d at right angles t0 each other and having then: ends bent np at 1ight angles and fixedly secu1ed to the 10wer end'of the receptaele upon the nner face of the same, the strainng-cloth placed over said crossed wires, and a ring 11tted over the c1oth and the 10wer enter end of the receptacle, allarranged and operating substantially as speefied In testimony that I claim the foregong ns my own I hzwe heret0 affixed my signatnre in presence of two witnesses.

- WILLIAM W. NEWCOM B.

\Vitnessesz W'M. SEVERANCE, J. A. BOWMAN. 

